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65th Congress, ) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( Report 

1st Session. } ( No. 52. 


TEMPORARY INCREASE IN THE MILITARY ESTAB¬ 
LISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 


May 15, 1917.—Ordered to be printed 


Mr. Dent, from the committee on conference, submitted the 

following 


CONFERENCE REPORT. 


[To accompany H. R. 3545.] 
h r wWi hsiXtCAA. fcfcvCj foy» 

The committee of conference on die disagreeing votes of tne two 
Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 3545) to 
authorize the President to increase temporarily the military estab¬ 
lishment of the United States, having met, alter full and further 
conference have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their 
respective Houses as follows: 

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment 
of the Senate and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: 

In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment insert the fol¬ 
lowing : 

That in view of the existing emergency, which demands the raising 
of troops in addition to those now available, the President be. and 
he is hereby, authorized — 

First. Immediately to raise, organize, officer, and equip all or such 
member of increments of the Regular Army provided by the national 
defense act approved •June third, nineteen hundred and: sixteen, or 
such parts thereof as he may deem necessary • to raise all organiza¬ 
tions of the Regular Army, including those added by such increments, 
to the maximum enlisted strength authorized by law. Vacancies in 
the Regular Army created or caused by the addition of increments as 
herein authorized which can not be filled by promotion may be filled 
by temporary appointment for the period of the emergency or until 
replaced by permanent appointments or by provisional appointments 
made under the provisions of section twenty-three of the national 
defense act, approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and 
hereafter provisional appointments under said section may be termi- 
'nated whenever it is determined, in the manner prescribed by the 
President, that the officer has not the suitability and fitness requisite 
for permanent oppointment. 







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Second . To draft into the military service of the United States, 
organize , <md officer , m accordance with the provisions of section one °\ 
hundred and eleven of said national defense act , so far as the pro¬ 
visions of said section may be applicable and not inconsistent with 
the terms of this act , or members of the National Guard and 

of the National Guard Reserves , and said members so drafted into 
the military service of the United States shall serve therein for the 
period of the existing emergency unless sooner discharged: Provided, 
That when so drafted the organizations or units of the National 
Guard shall , so far as practicable . retain the State designations of 
their respective organizations. 

Third. To raise by draft as herein provided , organize and equip 
an additional force of five hundred thousand enlisted men , or such 
part or parts thereof as he may at any time deem necessary , and to . 
provide the necessary officers , line and staff , for said force and for 
organizations of the other forces hereby authorized, or by combining 
organizations of said other forces , . by ordering members of the 
Officers ’ Reserve Corps to temporary duty in accordance with the 
provisions of section thirty-eight of the national defense act ap¬ 
proved June third , nineteen hundred and sixteen; by appointment 
from the Regular Army , the Officers ’ Reserve Corps , /rom ^Aoso 
qualified and registered pursuant to section twenty-three of the act 
of Congress approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred, and 
three {Thirty-second Statutes at Large , page seven hundred and 
seventy-five ), /rom the members of the National Guard drafted into 
the service of the United States , from those who have been graduated 
from educational institutions at which military instruction is com¬ 
pulsory , or from those who have had honorable service in the Regular 
Army , the National Guard, or in the Volunteer forces , or from the 
country at large; by assigning retired officers of the Regular Army 
to active duty with such force with their rank on the retired list and 
the full pay and allowances of their grade; or by the appointment of 
retired officers and enlisted men, active or retired , of the Regular 
Army as commissioned officers in such forces: Provided, That the 
organization of said force shall be the same as that of the correspond¬ 
ing organizations of the Regular Army.: Provided further , That the 
President is authorized to increase or decrease the number of or¬ 
ganizations prescribed for the typical brigades, divisions , or army 
corps of the Regular Army , and to prescribe such new and different 
organizations and personnel for army corps , divisions , brigades, 
regiments , battalions , squadrons , companies , troops , and batteries as 
the efficiency of the service may require: Provided further , That the 
number of organizations in a regiment shall not be increased nor shall 
the number of regiments be decreased: Provided further , That the 
President in his discretion may organize , officer , and equip for each 
Infantry and Cavalry brigade three machine-gun companies, and for 
each Infantry and Cavalry division four machine-gun companies , all 
in addition to the machine-gun companies comprised in organizations 
included in such brigades and divisions: Provided further. That the 
President in his discretion may organize for each division one ar¬ 
mored motor' car machine-gun company. The machine-gun com¬ 
panies organized under this section shall consist of such commis¬ 
sioned and enlisted personnel and be equipped in .such manner as the 

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TEMPORARY INCREASE IN MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. 3 

President may 'prescribe: And provided further, That officers with 
rank not above that of colonel shall be appointed by the President 
alone, and officers above that grade by the President by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate: Provided further, That the Presi¬ 
dent may in his discretion, recommission in the Coast Guard persons 
who have heretofore held commissions in the Revenue-Cutter Service 
or the Coast Guard and have left the service honorably, after ascer¬ 
taining that they are qualified for service physically, morally, and as 
to age and military fitness. 

Fourth. The President is further authorized, in his discretion and 
at such time as he may determine, to raise and begin the training 
of an additional force of five hundred thousand men .organized, offi¬ 
cered, and equipped, as provided for the force first mentioned in the 
preceding paragraph of this section. 

Fifth. To raise by draft, organize, equip. and officer, as provided 
in the third paragraph of this section, in addition to and for each of 
the above forces, such recruit training units as he may deem necessary 
for the maintenance of such forces at the maximum strength. 

Sixth. To raise , organize, officer, and maintain during the emer¬ 
gency such number of ammunition batteries and battalions, depot 
batteries and battalions, and such artillery parks, with such numbers 
and grades of personnel as he may deem necessary. Such organiza¬ 
tions shall be officered in the man ner provided in the third paragraph 
of this section, and enlisted men may be assigned to said organiza¬ 
tions from any of the forces herein provided for or raised by selec¬ 
tive draft as by this act provided. 

Seventh. The President is further authorized to raise and maintain 
by voluntary enlistment, to organize, and equip, not to exceed four 
Infantry divisions. the officers of which shall be selected in the man¬ 
ner provided by paragraph three of section one of this act: Pro¬ 
vided, That the organization of said’ force shall be the same as that 
of the corresponding organization of the Regular Army: And pro¬ 
vided further, That there shall be no enlistments in said force of 
men under twenty-five years of age at time, of enlisting: And pro¬ 
vided further. That no such volunteer force shall be accepted in any 
unit smaller than a division. 

Sec. 2. That the enlisted men required to raise and maintain the 
organizations of the Regular Army and to complete and maintain 
the organizations embodying the members of the i\ ational Guard 
drafted into the service of the United States, at the maximum 
legal strength as by this act provided, shall b{ raised by voluntary 
enlistment, or if and whenever the President decides that, they can 
%0 t effectually be so raised or maintained, then by selective draft; 
and all other forces hereby authorized, except as provided m the 
seventh paragraph of section one, shall be raised and maintained by 
selective draft exclusively; but this provision shall not prevent the 
transfer to any force of training cadres from other. forces. > Such 
draft as herein provided shall be based upon liability to military 
service of all mule citizens, or male persons not alien enemies who 
have declared their intention to become citizens, between the ages 
of twenty-one and thirty years, both inclusive, and shall take place 
and be maintained under such regulations as the President may 
prescribe not inconsistent with the terms of this act. Quotas for 


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TEMPORARY INCREASE IN MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. 


the several States, Terri,lories, and the District of Columbia, or sub¬ 
divisions thereof, sAtzZZ determined in proportion to the population 
thereof, credit shall be given to any State, Territory, District , 

07* subdivision thereof, /<9r £Ae number of men who were in the mili¬ 
tary service of the United States as members of the National Guard 
on April first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, w wA<9 have 

ctee entered the military service of the United States from any 
such State, Territory, District, subdivision, either as members of 

the Regular Army or the National Guard. All persons drafted into 
the service of the. United States and all officers accepting commis¬ 
sions in the forces herein provided for shall , /Vow, of said 

draft or acceptance, Ae sub feet to the laws and regulations governing 
the Regular Army, except as to promotions , as swcA 

regulations are applicable to persons whose permanent retention in 
the military service on the active or retired' list is not contemplated 
by existing law, and those drafted shall be required to serve for the 
period of the existing emergency\ unless sooner discharged: Provided, 
That the President is authorized to raise and maintain by voluntary 
enlistment or draft, as herein provided, special and technical troops 
as he may deem necessary, and to embody them into organizations 
and to officer them as provided in the third paragraph of section one 
and section nine of this act. Organizations of the forces herein pro¬ 
vided for, except the Regular Army and the divisions authorized in 
the seventh paragraph of section one, shall, as far as the interests of 
the service permit, be composed of men who come, and of officers 
who are appointed from, the same State or locality. 

Sec. 8. No bounty shall be paid to induce any person to enlist in 
the, military service of the United States; and no person liable to 
military service shall hereafter be permitted or allowed to furnish a 
substitute for such service; nor shall any substitute be received , en¬ 
listed, or enrolled, in the military 'service of the United States; and, 
no such person shall be permitted to escape such service or to be 
discharged therefrom prior to the expiration of his term of service 
by the payment of money or any other valuable thing whatsoever as 
consideration for his release from, military service or liability 
thereto. 

Sec. 1. That the Vice President of the United, States, the officers, 
legislative, executive, and judicial, of the United States and of the 
several States , Territories, and, the District of Columbia, regular or 
duly ordained ministers of religion, students who at the time of the 
approval of this act, are preparing for the ministry in recognized 
theological or divinity schools, and all persons in the military and 
naval service of the United States shall be exempt from the selective 
draft herein prescribed; and nothing in this act contained shall be 
construed to require, or compel any person to serve in any of the 
forces herein provided for who is found to be a member of any well- 
recognized religious sect or organization at present organized and 
existing and whose existing creed or principles forbid its members to 
participate in war in any form and whose religious convictions are 
against war or participation therein in accordance with the creed or 
principles of said religious organizations , but no person so exempted 
shall be exempted from service in any capacity that the President shall 
declare to be noncombatant; and the President is hereby authorized to 
exclude or discharge from said selective draft and from the draft 


TEMPORARY INCREASE IN MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. 5 


under the second paragraph of section one hereof, or to draft for 
partial military service only from those liable to draft as in this 
act provided, persons of the following classes: County and munici¬ 
pal officials; customhouse clerks; persons employed by the United 
tales in the transmission of the mails; artificers and workmen em¬ 
ployed in the armories, arsenals, and navy yards of the United States, 
and such other persons employed in the service of the United States 
as the / resident may designate; pilots; mariners actually employed 
m the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United 
states; persons engaged in industries, including agriculture , found 
to be necessary to the j maintenance of the Military Establishment 
or the effective operation of the military forces or the maintenance 
of national interest during the emergency ; those in a status with 
respect to persons dependent upon them for support which renders 
their exclusion or discharge advisable; and those found to be physi¬ 
cally or morally deficient. A o exemption or exclusion shall continue 
when a cause therefor no longer exists: Provided , That notwith¬ 
standing the exemptions enumerated herein , each State, Territory , 
and the District of Columbia shall be required to supply its quota in 
the proportion that its population bears to the total population of 
the United States. 


7 he President is hereby authorized , in his discretion , to create and 
establish throughout the several States and subdivisions thereof and 
in the territories and the District of Columbia local boards , and 
where, in his discretion, practicable and desirable , there shall be 
created and established one such local board in each county or simi¬ 
lar subdivision in each State , and one for approximately each thirty 
thousand of population in each city of thirty thousand population 
or over , according to the last census taken or estimates furnished by 
the Bureau of Census of the Department of Commerce. Such boards 
shall be appointed by the President, and shall consist of three or 
more members , none of whom shall be connected- with the Mili¬ 
tary Establishment, to be chosen from, among the local authorities of 
such subdivisions or from, other citizens residing in the subdivision or 
area in which the respective boards will have jurisdiction under the 
rules and regulations prescribed by the President. Such boards 
shall have power within their respective jurisdictions to hear and 
determine , subject to review as hereinafter provided , all questions 
of exemption under this act , and all questions of or claims for in¬ 
cluding or discharging individuals or classes of individuals from the 
selective draft, which shall be made under rules and regulations pre¬ 
scribed, by the President , except, any and every question or claim for 
including or excluding or discharging persons or classes of persons 
from the selective draft under the provisions of this act authorizing 
the President to exclude or discharge from the selective draft “ Per¬ 
sons engaged in industries, including agriculture , found to be neces¬ 
sary to the maintenance of the Military Establishment , or the effec¬ 
tive operation of the military forces, or the maintenance of national 
interest during the emergency 

The President is hereby authorized, to establish additional boards , 
one in each Federal judicial district of the United Statesconsisting 
of such number of citizens, not connected with the military estab¬ 
lishment, as the President may determine, who shall be appointed 


6 TEMPORARY INCREASE IN MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. 

by the President. The President is hereby authorized, in his dis¬ 
cretion, to establish more than one such board in any Federal judicial 
district of the United States, or to establish one such board having 
jurisdiction of an area extending into more than one Federal judicial 
district. 

Such district boards shall review on appeal and affirm, modify, or 
reverse any decision of any local board hawing jurisdiction in the 
area in which any such district board, has jurisdiction under the rules 
and regulations prescribed by the President. Such district boards 
shall have exclusive original jurisdiction within their respective 
areas to hear and determine all questions or claims for including or 
excluding or discharging persons or classes of persons from the 
selective draft, under the provisions of this act, not included within, 
the original jurisdiction of such local boards. 

The decisions of such district boards shall be final except that , in 
accordance with such rules and regulations as the President may 
prescribe, he may affirm, modify or reverse any such decision. 

Any vacancy in any such local board or distinct board shall be 
filed by the President, and any member of any such local board or 
district board may be removed and another appointed in his place 
by the President, whenever he considers that the interest of the. 
Nation demands it. 

The President shall make rules and, regulations governing the 
organization and procedure of such local boards and, district boards, 
and providing for and governing appeals from such local boards to 
such district boards, and reviews of the decisions of any local board 
by the district beard, having jurisdiction, and determining and pre¬ 
scribing the several areas in 'which the respective local boards and 
district boards shall have jurisdiction, and all other rules and, regu¬ 
lations necessary to carry out the terms a,nd provisions of this sec¬ 
tion, and shall provide for the issuance of certifcates of exemption, 
or partial or limited exemptions, and for a system to exclude and 
discharge individuals from selective draft. 

Sec. 5. That all male persons between the ages of twenty-one and 
thirty, both inclusive, shall be subject to registration in accordance 
with regulalions to be prescribed, by the President; and upon proc¬ 
lamation by the President or other public notice given by him or by 
his direction stating the time and place of such registration it shall 
be the duty of all persons of the designated ages, except officers and 
enlisted men of the Regular Army, the Navy , and the National Guard 
and, Naval Militia while in the service of the United States, to pre¬ 
sent themselves for and, submit to registration under the provisions 
of this act; and every such person shall be deemed to have notice of 
the requirements of this act upon the publication of said proclama¬ 
tion or other notice as aforesaid given by the President or by his 
direction; and any person who shall willfully fail or refuse to pre¬ 
sent himself for registration or to submit thereto as herein provided , 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction in the 
district court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, be 
punished by imprisonment for not more than one year,, and shall 
thereupon be duly registered: Provided, That in the call of the docket 
precedence shall be given, in courts trying the same, to the trial of 
criminal proceedings under this act: Provided further, That persons 


TEMPORARY INCREASE IN MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. 7 

shall be subject to registration as herein 'provided who shall have 
attained their twenty-first birthday and who shall not have attained 
tfu ir thirty-first birthday on. or before the day set for the registra¬ 
tion, and all persons so registered shall be and remain subject to 
draft into the forces hereby authorized r , unless exempted or excused 
therefrom as in this act provided: Provided further, That in the 
case of temporary absence from actual place of legal residence of 
any person liable to registration as provided herein such registra¬ 
tion may be made by mail under regulations to be prescribed by the 
President. 

Sec. 6. I hat the President is hereby authorized, to utilize the 
service of any or all departments and any or all officers or agents of 
the United States and of the several States, Territories, and the 
District of Columbia, and subdivisions thereof, in the execution of 
this act, and all officers and agents of the United States and of the 
several States, Territories, and subdivisions thereof, and of the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia ,, and all persons designated or appointed under 
regulations prescribed by the President whether such appointments 
are made by the President himself or by the governor or other officer 
of any State or Territory to perform any duty in the execution of 
this act, are hereby required to perform such duty as the President 
shall order or direct, and all such officers and agents and persons so 
designated or appointed shall hereby have full authority for all acts 
done by them in the execution of this act by the direction of the 
President. Correspondence in the execution of this act may be 
carried in penalty envelopes bearing the frank of the War Depart¬ 
ment. Any person charged' as herein provided with the duty of 
carrying into effect any of the provisions of this act or the regula¬ 
tions made or directions given thereunder who shall fail or neglect 
to perform such duty; and any person charged with such duty or 
having and exercising any authority under said act, regulations, or 
directions, who shall knowingly make or be a party to the making 
of any false or incorrect registration, physical examination, exemp¬ 
tion, enlistment, enrollment, or muster; and any person who shall 
make or be a party to the making of any false statement or certificate 
as to the fitness or liability of himself or any other person for service 
under the provisions of this act, or regulations made by the President 
thereunder, or otherwise evades or aids another to evade the re¬ 
quirements of this act or of said regulations, or who, in any manner, 
shall fail or neglect fully to perform any duty required of him in the 
execution of this act, shall, if not subject to military law, be guilty of 
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in the district court of the 
United States having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprison¬ 
ment for not more than one year, or, if subject to military law, shall 
be tried by court-martial and suffer such punishment as a court- 
martial may direct. 

Sec. 7. That the qualifications and conditions for voluntary en¬ 
listment as herein provided shall be the same as those prescribed by 
existing law for enlistments in the Regular Army, except that re¬ 
cruits must be between the ages of eighteen and forty years, both in¬ 
clusive, at the time of their enlistment; and such enlistments shall be 
for the period of the emergency unless sooner discharged. All en¬ 
listments, including those in the Regular Army Reserve, which are 
in force on the date of the approval of this act and which would 


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TEMPORARY INCREASE IN MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. 


terminate during the emergency shall continue in force during the 
emergency unless sooner discharged ; but nothing herein contained 
shall be construed to shorten the period, of any existing enlistment: 
Provided, That all persons enlisted or draff ted under any of the pro¬ 
visions of this act shall as far as practicable be grouped into units by 
States and the political subdivisions of the same: Provided further, 
That all persons who have enlisted since April first, nineteen hun¬ 
dred and seventeen, either in the Regular Army or in the National 
Guard, and all persons who have enlisted in the National Guard 
since June third, nineteen hundred and. sixteen, upon their applica¬ 
tion, shall be discharged upon the termination of the existing emer¬ 
gency. 

The President may provide for the discharge of any or all enlisted 
men whose status with respect to dependents renders such discharge 
advisable; and he may also authorize the employment on any active 
duty of retired enlisted men of the Regular Army, either with their 
rank on the retired list or in higher enlisted, grades, and such retired 
enlisted men shall receive the full pay and allowances of the grades 
in which they are actively employed. 

Sec. 8. That the President, by and with the advice and consent of 
the Senate, is authorized to appoint for the period of the existing 
emergency such general officers of appropriate grades, as may be 
necessary for duty with brigades, divisions, and higher units in ivhich 
the forces provided for herein may be organized by the President , 
and general officers of appropriate grade for the several Coast Artil¬ 
lery districts. In so far as such appointments may be made from any 
of the forces herein provided, for, the appointees may be selected irre¬ 
spective of the grades held, by them in such forces. Vacancies in all 
grades in the Regular Army residting from the appointment of offi¬ 
cers thereof to higher grades in the forces other than the Regular 
Army herein provided for shall be filled by temporary promotions 
and appointments in the manner prescribed for filling temporary 
vacancies by section one hundred and fourteen of the national de¬ 
fense Act approved June third , nineteen hundred and sixteen; and 
officers appointed under the provisions of this act to higher grades in 
the forces other than the Regular Army herein provided for shall 
not vacate their permanent commissions nor be prejudiced in their 
relative or lineal standing in the Regular Army. 

Sec. 9. That the appointments authorized and made as provided 
by the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh paragraphs of 
section one and by section eight of this Act, and the temporary ap¬ 
pointments in the Regular Army authorized by the first paragraph of 
section one of this Act. shall be for the period of the emergency, unless 
sooner terminated by discharge or otherwise. The President is hereby 
authorized, to discharge any officer from the office held by him under 
such appointment for any cause which, in the judgment of the Presi¬ 
dent, would promote the public service; and the general commanding 
any division and higher tactical organization or territorial depart¬ 
ment is authorized to appoint from time to time military boards of 
not less than three nor more than five officers of the forces herein pro¬ 
vided for to examine into and report upon the capacity, qualification , 
conduct, and efficiency of any commissioned officer within his com¬ 
mand other than officers of the Regular Army holding permanent 


TEMPORARY INCREASE IN MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. 9 

or provisional commissions therein. Each member of such board 
shall be superior in 'rank to the officer whose qualifications are to be 
inquired into, and if the report of such board be adverse to the con¬ 
tinuance of any such officer and be approved by the President, such 
officer shall be discharged from the service at the discretion of the 
President with one month's pay and allowances. 

Sec. 10. That all officers and enlisted men of the forces herein pro¬ 
vided for other than the Regular Army shall be in all respects on the 
same footing as to pay , allowances, and pensions as officers and en¬ 
listed men of corresponding grades and length of service in the 
Regular Army ; and, commencing June one, nineteen hundred and 
seventeen, and continuing until the termination of the emergency, 
all enlisted men of the Army of the United States in active service 
whose base pay does • not exceed $21 per month shall receive an in¬ 
crease of $10 per month; those whose base pay is $21, an increase of 
$8 per month; those whose base pay is $30, $36, or $40, an increase of 
$6 per month; and those whose base pay is $46 or more, an increase of 
$6 per month: Provided, That the increases of pay herein authorized 
shall not enter into the computation of continuous-service pay. 

Sec. 11. That ail existing restrictions upon the detail, detachment, 
and employment of officer's and enlisted men of the Regular Army are 
hereby suspended for the period of the present emergency. 

Sec. 12. That the President of the United States , as Commander 
in Chief of the Army, is authorized to make such regulations govern¬ 
ing the prohibition of alcoholic liquors in or near military camps 
and to the officers and enlisted men of the Army as he may from time 
to time deem necessary or advisable: Provided, That no person, 
corporation, partnership, or association shall sell, supply, or have in 
his or its possession any intoxicating or spirituous liquors at any 
military station, cantonment, camp, fort, post, officers' or enlisted, 
men's club, which is being used at the time for military purposes 
under this act, but the Secretary of War may make regulations per¬ 
mitting the sale and use of intoxicating liquors for medicinal pur¬ 
poses. It shall be unlawful to sell any intoxicating liquor, including 
beer, ale, or wine, to any officer or member of the military forces 
while in uniform, except as herein prodded. Any person, corpora¬ 
tion, partnership, or association violating the provisions of this sec¬ 
tion or the regulations made thereunder shall, unless otherwise 
punishable under the Articles of War, be deemed guilty of a mis¬ 
demeanor and be punished, by a fine of not more than $1,000 or im¬ 
prisonment for not more than twelve months, or both. 

Sec. 13. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, em¬ 
powered, and directed during the present war to do everything by 
him deemed, necessary to suppress and prevent the keeping or setting 
up of houses of ill fame, brothels, or bawdy houses within such dis¬ 
tance as he may deem needful of any military camp, station, fort, 
post, cantonment, training, or mobilization place, and any person, 
corporation, partnership, or association receiving or permitting to 
be received for immoral purposes any person into any place, struc¬ 
ture, or building used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or 
prostitution within such distance of said, places as may be designated, 
or shall permit any such person to remain for immoral purposes in 
any such place, structure, or building as aforesaid/, or who shall 


10 TEMPORARY INCREASE IN MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. 

violate any order , rule , or regulation issued to carry out the object 
and purpose of this section shall, unless otherwise punishable under 
the Articles of War , be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be 
punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or imprisonment for not 
more than twelve months , or both. 

Sec. lJj. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the pro¬ 
visions of this Act are hereby suspended during the period of this 
emergency. 

S. H. Dent, Jr., 

W. J. Fields, 

Percy E. Quin, 

D. R. Anthony, Jr., 
Managers on the part of the Rouse. 
Geo. E. Chamberlain, 

G. M. Hitchcock, 

F. E. Warren, 

Managers on the part of the Senate. 


STATEMENT OF THE MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE. 

The managers on the part of the House at the conference on the 
disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate 
to the bill (II. IT 8545) to authorize the President to increase tem¬ 
porarily the Military Establishment of the United States submit the 
following written statement explaining the elfect of the action agreed 
on: 

The bill as reported back is identically the same as the one reported 
in Report No. 49, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, with the exception 
of the incorporation of the Senate provision, commonly known as the 
Roosevelt amendment, providing for four divisions to be raised under 
the volunteer system. 

The managers call attention, however, to the fact that said printed 
report hereto referred to and made a part hereof is amended so as 
to make its provisions conform to the organization of said four 
divisions of Volunteers. 

On page 5 of the printed conference report after the word “ draft” 
and before the quotation, beginning with the word “ persons ” and 
ending with the word “ emergency,” there should be no punctuation. 
The bill itself is so drawn and the mistake is made in the printed 
copy. 

S. H. Dent, Jr., 

W. J. FlElT>S, 

Percy E. Quin, 

D. R. Anthony, Jr., 
Managers on the part of the House. 

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